Europe invests another $17 million to modernise the Kingdomโs agriculture system
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has secured $17.4 million from the European Union to invest in sustainable agriculture projects in Cambodia. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50949170/europe-invests-another-17-million-to-modernise-the-kingdoms-agriculture-system/
Vietnamโs exports to Cambodia up 16.7 percent in eight months
Vietnam earned $3.15 billion from exporting goods to Cambodia in the first eight months of 2021, up 16.7 percent year-on-year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50942886/vietnams-exports-to-cambodia-up-16-7-percent-in-eight-months/
Fleeing uncertainty: Cambodia to accept 300 Afghan refugees temporarily
Amid the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, Cambodia has agreed in principle to temporarily accept 300 Afghan refugees with some conditions before they are granted asylum in a third country, a move the government said is due to humanitarian reasons. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50925303/cambodia-to-accept-300-afghan-refugees-temporarily/
December 29 should be listed in the calendar to mark the governmentโs win-win policy
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that December 29 should be listed in a Cambodian calendar in a bid to celebrate the government’s win-win policy when years of armed conflicts came to an end. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50997072/december-29-should-be-listed-in-the-calendar-to-mark-the-governments-win-win-policy/
More than 62,000 hectares of flooded forest land returned to the state
More than 62,000 hectares of flooded forest land in six provinces surrounding Tonle Sap lake have been returned To the government, according To an official. ...
Cambodiaโs new PM launches strategy to boost growth, maintain sustainability
Cambodia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Hun Manet on Thursday launched the “Pentagonal Strategy-Phase I 2023-2028” during the first cabinet meeting. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349026/cambodias-new-pm-launches-strategy-to-boost-growth-maintain-sustainability/
Google to help NEC fight fake online news during polls
The National Election Committee (NEC) will work hand in hand with Google to prevent the spread of fake news on the internet during the upcoming National Election. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501279974/google-to-help-nec-fight-fake-online-news-during-polls/
Strengthening of Cambodia-Singapore air connectivity suggested to boost tourism
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Singapore to strengthen connectivity, particularly air connectivity between the two ASEAN nations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247417/strengthening-of-cambodia-singapore-air-connectivity-suggested-to-boost-tourism/
Temasek Holdings Company in Singapore aims to expand its business in Cambodia
The chairman of Temasek Holdings Company, Lim, said to Cambodian Prime Minister Dr. Hun Manet that his company aims to expand its business further in the ASEAN region, of which Cambodia is also a priority. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501425185/temasek-holdings-company-in-singapore-aims-to-expand-its-business-in-cambodia/
Construction sector investment falls by 22 percent
Investment capital in Cambodia’s construction industry is off to a dwindling start this year, falling 22.1 percent at the end of the first quarter compared with the same period last year. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/construction-sector-investment-falls-22-percent
Former Beehive workers protest over severance pay
Nine former employees of Beehive radio station protested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to demand that owner Mam Sonando respect an Arbitration Council ruling that he pay them severance after firing them earlier this year. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-beehive-workers-protest-over-severance-pay-85372/
Rainsy, Sokha Draw Large Crowds in Siem Reap
SIEM REAP CITY/KOMPONG THOM CITY – Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha led a parade of more than 20,000 supporters on Wednesday through the streets of Siem Reap City in what was the second-largest turnout for an opposition rally since Mr. Rainsy landed in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-sokha-draw-large-crowds-in-siem-reap-36614/
Land Rights Talks Held With Japanese Envoy
Japanese Ambassador Kuroki Masafumi met with human rights workers on Friday to discuss land rights in Cambodia, particularly implementation of the law and the use of force in evictions, two of the participants at the meeting said. Adhoc President Thun Saray, Licadho President Pung Chhiv Kek and ...
Excess ballots cause alarm
The National Election Committee is to print more than ten million ballot papers for July’s national election, despite a civil society group raising fears about irregularities. NEC spokesman Dim Sovannarom said the organisation would print 10,525,650 papers soon, including 329,200 to be used as examples. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50495415/excess-ballots-cause-alarm/
UN envoy meets with NEC
The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday told United Nations Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith that election monitoring coalition the “Situation Room” will have to register with the Interior Ministry if it wants to deploy observers for next year’s elections – despite there being no such requirement ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-envoy-meets-nec
Cambodian legislature strips detained opposition senator of immunity
Cambodia’s legislature voted to strip an opposition senator in police custody of his immunity Monday, prompting criticism from rights groups, after Prime Minister Hun Sen accused him of treason for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/immunity-08172015150909.html
Kandal villagers petition ministry in HAC dispute
Thirty villagers from Kandal province, representing 292 families who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Akphivath Company (HAC), petitioned the Ministry of Land Management on Monday, seeking to obtain land titles. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-petition-ministry-hac-dispute
EDC plans power line linking lake provinces
Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) will spend $167 million to install a 350-km-long high-voltage transmission line connecting four provinces around the tonle Sap lake, the state-owned utility announced in a press release Monday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/edc-plans-power-line-linking-lake-provinces-79879/
European donors working on joint cooperation aid strategy
Cambodia’s European aid donors said Tuesday they are working on a new five-year “cooperation strategy” designed to increase the impact of the millions of dollars in loans and grants they give the country each year. With a combined $209 million in aid to Cambodia in 2012, ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/european-donors-working-on-joint-cooperation-aid-strategy-54937/
Condo sales up but glut looms
Some 13,730 condominium units were sold in Phnom Penh in the first half of this year compared to 13,050 units in the same period last year representing an approximate five percent increase in sales, according to figures from a real estate company. However, insiders believe ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27004/condo-sales-up-but-glut-looms/